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Opera Q. Septimii Florentis Tertulliani inter Latinos ecclesiae scriptores primi sine quorum lectione nullum diem intermittebat olim diuus Cyprianus, per Beatum Rhenanum Seletstadiensem e tenebris eruta atque à situ pro uirili uindicata, adiectis singulorum librorum argume[n]tis & alicubi coniecturis, quibus vetustissimus autor nonnihil illustratur. Quorum catalogum proxima pagina reperies. Floruit sub Caess. ... [Title continues in note] / [Tertullian].
Tertullian, approximately 160-approximately 230.Date: M. D. XXI.[1521]- Books
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Holy women of the Syrian Orient / introduced and translated by Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey.
Date: 2008, ©1987- Books
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Holy women of the Syrian Orient / introduced and translated by Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey.
Date: 1998, ©1987- Books
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Thoughts on the nature of the grand apostacy. With reflections and observations on the XVth chapter of Mr. Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. To which are added, three dissertations: - I. On the Parousia of Christ: II. On the Millennium: And the IIId by the late Rev. Mr. Richard Wavell, on Prophecy. By Henry Taylor, Rector of Crawley, and Vicar of Portsmouth in Hants, Author of Ben Mordecai's Apology for embracing Christianity.
Taylor, Henry, 1711-1785.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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The One thing needful discovered; or, Which is the best religion? Being a serious enquiry what church or communion is best and safest to join with, in order to obtain everlasting life? In which are truly and fairly stated the different principles of most professions in the Church of Christ, viz. that of Rome, England, Presbyterians, Independants, Anabaptists, Quakers, Arians, Socinians, Arminians, Pelagians, Muggletonians, Libertines, Ranters. Adamites, and Seekers: these are sixteen opinions dividing the Church of Christ. In a dialogue between the Bishop of London, and a country farmer. Entered according to order.
Date: between ca. 1740 and 1770?]- Books
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The One thing needful discovered; or, Which is the best religion: Being a serious enquiry what church or communion is best and latest to join with, in order to obtain everlasting life: in which are truly and fairly stated the different principles of most professions in the Church of Christ, viz. that of Rome, England, Presbyterians, independants, Anabaptists, Quakers, Arians, Sociniaas, Arminians pelagians, Muggletonians, libertines, ranters, adamites, and seekers: there are the fifteen opinions dividing the Church of Christ. In a dialogue between the bishop of London and a country farmer. Licensed and entered according to order.
Date: between ca. 1740 and 1770?]- Books
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The history of religion: particularly of the principal denominations of Christians, viz. Of the Church of Rome, --- England, --- Scotland, - Nonjurors, - Lutherans, - Presbyterians, Of the Independents, - Baptists in general, - Quakers, -- Antinomians, - Moravians, - Methodists in general. Containing a succinct and genuine account of their original and present constitution, discipline, doctrines, worship, and ceremonies: With a general Account of the various Sectaries of less Note, since the first Establishment of Christianity. Including a general History of the Reformation, and so much of Civil and Ecclesiastical History as is connected with, or necessary to explain and illustrate the Work. To which is added, A Dictionary of the principal Religious Orders, Offices, Days, Rites, Customs, Habits, and Characters; the most important Transactions of Ecclesiastical Councils, Synods, &c. explaining all such ambiguous Words and Phrases as have a proper Connexion with the Subjects of this History. By an impartial hand.
Murray, James, 1732-1782.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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Bombay church: or, a true account of the building and finishing the English church at Bombay in the East Indies; with a list of the benefactions contributed thereunto, from the year it was begun 1715, To The Year it was Finished 1718: Also the First Rise of the Charity - School Proposed to be Erected There 1719; With a few Remarks on the Indian Letters. By Richard Cobbe, M. A. Late Chaplain to the Honourable East India Company.
Cobbe, Richard.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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The christian's prayer book; or, complete manual of devotions. In four parts Containing Introductory Discourse on the Use and Advantage of Prayer. - Ejaculatious for the Morning, - Family Prayers. - Prayers for Children, for Youth, and for Servants. - Graces before and after Meat. - Instructions for Meditation, and Meditations for every Day in the Week. - Devout Reflections for every Day in the Month. - Heads of Self-Examination. - A Compendium of relative Duties. - Offices for sick Persons, and for the devout Receiving the Holy Communion, &c. &c. &c. With a great Number of Prayers and Meditations, adapted to particular Stations, Persons, and Circumstances. By the Rev. John Fleetwood, Author of The History of the Holy Bible; And Of The Life of Our Blessed Saviour.
Fleetwood, John.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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The psalmist's jewel: or, Family companion to the Book of Psalms, &c. Being, a new exposition on All the One Hundred and Fifty: With Poetical precepts from every Psalm. The Whole are faithfully explained from Sacred History, from Verse to Verse, for the Use of all Christian Families, as well as for Lovers of Psalmody in general: With Expositional Notes, referring to all concording Parts of the Scripture. - Also, An Alphabetical Description of Persons, of Places, and of Things mentioned in the Old and New Testament; and of Christ, Poetically. - With a general Calendar for the Adapting of Psalms to all Occasions; The Life of Holy David: And a New Set of Psalm-Tunes, in Three and Four Musical Parts. - With select Hymns, and Doxologies: And a general Key to the Whole, &c. &c. By William Tans'ur, Senior. - Musico-Theorico. Author of The New Royal Melody; The Elements of Musick Made Easy; Musical Dictionary, &c. &c.
Tans'ur, William, 1699?-1783.Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]- Books
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The new book of martyrs; or Complete Christian martyrology. Containing an authentic and genuine historical account of the many dreadful persecutions against the church of Christ, in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, Papists, and others. From the earliest ages of the church, to the present period. Including the life, sufferings, and martyrdom of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with the martyrdom of the Apostles, Evangelists, and other primitive Christians. The ten great persecutions under the Roman emperors. The persecutions in Persia, under Sapores; and the persecutions under the Arian vandals. - The horrid persecutions under the Papacy; particularly the martyrdoms of the Waldenses and Albigenses in France; the persecutions in Germany and Poland; the cruelties exercised in Bohemia and Lusatia; and the martyrdoms in Italy ... A full account of all the English martyrdoms, particularly those in the times of King Henry VIII. and Queen Mary, wherein are amply displayed all the butcheries, barbarities, tortures, and cruelties, exercised by the Papists against the Protestants, in the reigns of that tyrannical King, and bloody Queen ... The late persecutions in France against the Calas Family, &c. With a sketch of the martyrdom of the faithful and virtuous in the first ages of the world; ... The whole interspersed with accounts of several singular judgments against persecutors, a great variety of original anecdotes, and many curious memoirs; forming, at once, a complete history of persecutions, and a biography of martyrs. ... By the reverend Henry Southwell, LL.D. late of Magdalen College, Cambridge; rector of Asterby in Lincolnshire, and author of the universal family Bible.
Southwell, Henry, 1729 or 1730-1779.Date: [1785?]- Books
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High-Church: or a vindication of the Reverend Mr. William Richardson, from near an hundred aspersions that are cast upon him, by Mr. John Dunton, in his paradox intituled The preaching weather-cock. But more especially, those of his picking up a Common Whore, -Her boasting of being with Child (as she impudently calls it) of a young Parson, - His hiring of her (as we do Coachmen) by the Hour, - His tempting of her to Perjury, to clear his Innocence, - His giving the Sacrament the next Day, and being Thrice bound to his Good Behaviour, by a Warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice. In which Vindication - The Secret History of his Life, Conversation and Doctrines - is set in a True Light, and his Low-Church and Fanatick Accusers, are characteriz'd and detected. In a letter to Doctor Calamy a Dissenting Minister. To which is added, Killing no Sin, or a Panegyrick upon Mr. William Richardson, for attempting to murder his Wife and Mother (of which they have made Affidavit). With An Apology for his praying several Times of late, that God wou'd bless the Pretender and the Church of Rome. - Also a Relation of the Great Honours that were lately done him at Oxford and Cambridge, where (at the Request of the Vice-Chancellour) he preach'd a most excellent Sermon to that University.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1712- Books
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The new and complete life of our blessed Lord and saviour, Jesus Christ: that great example, as well as saviour of mankind. Containing a More Complete, Authentic, Ample, Accurate, Instructive, Universal, and Full Account (freed from Popish Superstition, and other Errors) than was ever before Published, of all the Real Facts, relating to the Exemplary Life, Meritorious Sufferings, and Triumphant Death of Our Glorious Redeemer, Who took upon himself our Sinful Nature, Was Crucified for our Sins, Rose Again for our Justification, Ascended into Heaven, and now Sitteth at the Right-Hand of God, making Intercession for Us; Particularly his Incarnation, Nativity, Genealogy, Baptism, Preservation, Circumcision, Presentation, Early Transactions, Divine Mission, Fasting, Ministry, Temptation, Doctrines, Calling and Appointment of the Apostles, Miracles, Parables, Travels, Humility, Charity, Patience, Meekness, Sufferings, Transfiguration, Passion, Institution of the Sacraments; Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, Appearance, and Ascension, &c. &c. &c. To which is Added, A New, Complete, and Authentic History of the Lives, Transactions, Sufferings, and Deaths, of his Holy Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples, And other Eminent Persons and Primitive Christians, who first Propagated the Christian Religion, and to cruel Persecutors laid down their Lives in the Glorious Cause of Jesus Christ; particularly St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, St. John, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Andrew, St. James the Great, St. Philip, St. Bartholomew, St. Thomas, St. James the Less, St. Simon, St. Jude, St. Matthias, St. Barnabas, St. Stephen, Timothy, Silas, Mary Magdalene, Mary Sister of Lazarus, Mary of Cleophas, Mary of Salome, Trophimus, Tychicus, Tertius, Linus, Onesiphorus, Stephanus, Phebe, Sosipater, Clement, Ananias, Nicolas, Nicodemus, Joseph, Philemon, Priscilla, Titus, &c. Also, A New, Useful, and Interesting Account of the Life of the Messiah's great Forerunner John the Baptist; And likewise the Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Together with A Faithful Account of the Successors of the Apostles, for Three Hundred Years after the Crucifixion, in the five great Apostolical Churches. Comprehending, The Whole Doctrine of Christianity, the Evidences fairly stated upon which it is founded, and the Manner of its Establishment in different Parts of the World. - Including a Complete Defence of Christianity, containing Plain and Satisfactory Answers to all the Objections made against our Holy Religion, by Jews, Turks, Atheists, Deists, Infidels, and Free-Thinkers of the present Age, who are a Disgrace to Human Nature, and strive to level Mankind with the Brute Creation; whereby the Religion of the great Redeemer of Mankind is proved to be Genuine and truly Divine. The Whole Interspersed with Practical Improvements, and Useful Remarks, Familiarly Adapted to every Capacity, and designed to Promote, in every Christian, the necessary Practice of Faith and Repentance, as the only appointed Means whereby God can be Reconciled with Man. This Complete Work being the Result of long Study and Experience, and not a hasty Performance, has been regularly digested and collected, not only from the Evangelists, Epistles, &c. but also from Josephus, the most judicious Ecclesiastical Historians, and other Books as well as Manuscripts (ancient and modern) of Undoubted Authority. It will therefore comprise a great Variety of the most Important, Valuable, and Curious Matter relating to the Life and Death of our Blessed Saviour and his Apostles, &c. not to be found in any other Work of the Kind whatever. By Paul Wright, D. D. Vicar of Oakley, &c. in Essex, late of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge; And Author of the Christian's New and Complete British Family Bible;-of the New and Complete Edition of Fox's Original Book of Martyrs;-And of The New Edition of the Whole Book of Common Prayer, with Notes, and other necessary Illustrations;-All of which respective Works are universally approved of in every Respect, by the Public in general, who have perused the Numbers already published. Embellished with the most elegant, valuable, and numerous set of large copper-plate prints ever published in a work of this kind; finely engraved from the original Drawings of Hamilton, Chalmers, West, Samuel Wale, Esq. &c. by those ingenious and celebrated Artists, Messrs. Pollard, Rennoldson, Taylor, Tookey, Smith, Page, Granger, Morris, Royce, Golder, Collier, Parker, and Other Eminent Masters.
Fleetwood, John.Date: [1790?]- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HEA-HEY
Date: 1765-1910Reference: MS.8854- Pictures
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A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
Master of Los Balbases (Painter in Burgos), active approximately 1495.Date: [1495?]Reference: 46009i- Archives and manuscripts
Family Planning Association
Family Planning AssociationDate: c.1930-c.2000sReference: SA/FPA- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Lenten sermons: Libro muy provechoso para todo fiel christiano intitulado sermonario quadragessimal medicinal
Gabriel VacaDate: 1553Reference: MS.9311- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: GO
Date: 1680-1922Reference: MS.9142